Born To Rock(up to 130)

Leo is a senior in high school just enjoying senior year will his already plans for college, Harvard. But, after a minor accidental cheating incident, Leo gets his scholarship taken away and must find the money as quick as possible. Leo is also a die hard republican and best friends with Melinda. She is a goth in love with punk rock and the band purge. Anyways, Leo one day finds out his biological father is King Maggot, the lead singer of the famous band Purge who is doing a final tour of their music. After finally meeting him after all these years, Leo decides to go on tour with Mcmurphy(aka King Maggot) in the hope that after meet and talk, he is bound to give Leo the money for college because he is rich. We are yet to see how the tour turns out, how he is treated and if he gets the money, but this goes to show how one dumb mistake can actually ruin someones life, and it also shows the step some people take to acheive there. Overall, this book is great so far and hope it stays this way, being very interesting.

The rest of Glass castle

After getting sick of the abuse and craziness of their parents, Lori and Jeanette decide they both want to move to New york after high school and get out of Welch as quick as possible. Realizing that this wont be easy, they both work after school for almost 9 months and collect the sufficient money to go to New york and rent an apartment, but to their dismay, it was stolen by who other then there dad. After a few days of suffereing, they decided to try again and use a different hiding spot. They both eventually made their way to New york and started their seperate lives. Jeanette went to college while Lori got a job. After a while of that, Brian, there younger brother moved there and found a job as well. Everyone was happy and enjying there lives until their parents moved to New York themselves. After living with Lori for a few months, they were kiked out, and with no money, homeless. After going down that road, they became squatters, or people living in abandoned houses for no pay. Everything was swell until one day the dad died of TB. This devastated the children and the family was no longer the same. They didn't meet every so often anymore, and they split apart. In the end, Jeanette got married and lived outside of New york city in a subarb and worked for a newspaper company. Her life turned out great afterall. Although she wanted to away from her parnets so bad as a young adult, there was always a part of her that loved her parents and wanted to be with them, which is why she was so hurt when her dad died.

Glass Castle(up to 210)

As parents Rex and rose continue to be disfunctional and not put food on the table, Jeanette becomes more responsible and starts doing things on her own as she is now in 7th grade. Rex and Rose continue to do weird things such as leave for long periods of time. Also, living in Welch, West Virgina, Jeanette begins to fight other kids in the neighborhood instead of make friends with them. Now, it seems even the kids are getting annoyed by the parents, being the first time this has ever happeend in the book. I think the kids are starting to realize how crazy there parents are and how they do not live a regular life. Also, they are going into there parents foot steps in the sense that they are fighting and doing things that they usually don't do. This shows just how bad of an influence parents can have on kids. I suspect a big event coming in the last part of this book. It seems the kids are getting sick of there life and want a change, but we will see what is to come.

Glass castle (up to 150)

As Jeanette's family continues to be irresponsible and flat out crazy, there is a bright spot in the road. After moving from a town in which a boy raped Jeanette and the kids almost killed the kid, Billy, the family moves to Phoenix and takes there dead Aunts house. Things are seemingly going better. For one, it seems like Rex has a stable job as an electrician, and is bringing in sufficient money to the family, and the mom is progressing with her art. Plus, the kids even receive bikes to go to their new school on in which they love. Everything is going better for this still disfunctional family for a while. But, after rex loses his job, the family begins to breakdown as Rex comes back drunk many nights and does things he probably regrets such as throw expensive things and hurt his kids. All in all, the so-called progress was a fluke in my opinion and this family will go back to doing the same things they have done all book such as move very often and not give there kids food from time to time and leave young kids along to wonder. We will see what is to come, but I predict a big bad moment coming up soon that becomes a serious issue.

Glass Castle(up to 75)

One of the main themes in the book so far is the parents being very unorthodox in there parenting styles, meaning they do things and beleive things that are much different from most normal parents. For example, the Walls family moves on an average of every few weeks, sometimes more and sometimes less, and Rex Walls, the father, is always hunting for different jobs even though he is a smart guy. Another example is that they do not use toothpaste. Also, when they were in the car, they threw the cat out the window because it was being annoying and drove off. One crazy thing this difunctional family did was push Jeannette out of the car and not even come to get for an hour. Crazy right?? Also, one irresponsible thing the parents do is keep all there money in a glass jar and not put it in the bank. After reading a part of this book, I wonder what her future is going to be like as a teeneager and an adult. Growing up with such irresponsible parents can really have an effect on the child in the long run and make her do some of the same things the parents do which would be terrible. I just hope her life turns out o.k because she is really being terribly influenced as only a small child.

"Glass Castle" by Jeanette walls(first 20 pages)

This is a book about a girl and her memories of being a child. She had, and still has, very irresponsible and stupid parents who are disfunctional. For example, the mom lets the girl cook hot dogs at the age of 3 with no supervision. Not to my surprise, she was burned all over and went to the hospital. Even worse then that, the parnets took her out of the hospital before she was fully recovered, which is just plain old dumb. The last unadult like thing her parents did was not take her brother to the hospital when he broke his head. As you can see, these are examples are how these parents are not normal and have serious issues. Jeanette, the girl, takes after her parnets a lot, so that may pose to be a problem later in the book. So far, I think the book is great and would be loved by any kid or adult because it interests mostly everyone and is an exciting read.

Stotan!(whole book)- For summer reading

Stotan! by Chris Cruthcher

This book is about 4 highschool senior swimmers, Nortie, Jeff, Lion and Walker who decide to join stotan week on there winter break. This is 5 days of intense swimming, running, pushups and much more. After becoming so tired and wanttng to quit stotan week in the middle, there inner stotan(a cross between a spartan and a stoic) comes out and they begin to have the mind set of they are gunna do it no matter what. By staying together the nights after the days of stotan week, they become better friends and share experiences that make them stronger inside and better friends. For example, Nortie tells a story about how his brother hung himself at age 13 because of all the abuse he got from his father. They made them a tighter knit group of friends. Plus, from this week they become better swimmers, and even more This book is also about the highschool life and what happens in it. I thought this book was only alrite and would recommend it to teenagers who like swimming and are interested in other teens lives.